Darcy Lussick (born 6 June 1989) is an Australian professional

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footballer who plays as a for

Featherstone Rovers Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England, who play in the Championship (rugby league), Championship. Featherstone is a former coal mining town with a population of around 16,000 and Rover ...

in the

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, on loan from

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side

Salford Red Devils The Salford Red Devils are a professional rugby league club in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, who play in the Super League. Formed in 1873, they have won six Championships and one Challenge Cup. Their home ground since 2012 has been t ...

. He previously played for the

Manly Warringah Sea Eagles The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches. The team colours are maroon and white, while their namesake and logo is the sea eagle. They compete in Australia's premier rugb ...

in two separate spells and the

Parramatta Eels The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta that competes in the National Rugby League. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, and their ...

in the

NRL The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...

. Lussick also played for the

Toronto Wolfpack The Toronto Wolfpack are a Canadian professional rugby league club based in Toronto, Ontario, who compete in the North American Rugby League. The club originally competed in the British rugby league system but withdrew in the 2020 Super Leagu ...

in the

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and the

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Background

Lussick was born in

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains ...

Early career

Lussick played his junior football for the Beacon Hill Bears. He also played for the

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches. The team colours are maroon and white, while their namesake and logo is the sea eagle. They compete in Australia's premier rugb ...

S.G. Ball side in 2007.

Club career

Manly Warringah

Lussick made his debut game in round 14 2011 against the

North Queensland Cowboys The North Queensland Cowboys is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, the largest town in North Queensland. They compete in Australia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL). Sinc ...

, a game which Manly ran out easy 24-4 winners at

Brookvale Oval Brookvale Oval (also known by the commercial sponsorship name 4 Pines Park) is a sporting ground located within Brookvale Park at Brookvale, New South Wales, Australia. The ground is owned by Northern Beaches Council and is primarily used by th ...

against the previously in-form Cowboys. Lussick is also known for his part in the "

Battle of Brookvale The Battle of Brookvale was the unofficial name given to the Round 25, 2011 National Rugby League (NRL) match between the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and Melbourne Storm, played at Brookvale Oval on 26 August 2011. A number of incidents in the fi ...

" which resulted in a three match suspension. Manly would go on to be premiers in 2011 but Lussick played no part in the club's finals campaign or the

2011 NRL Grand Final The 2011 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the NRL's 2011 Telstra Premiership season. It was played between the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and the New Zealand Warriors on the afternoon of Sunday, 2 October, and ...

Parramatta

On 14 June 2012, Lussick signed a 3-year deal with the

. Lussick won the Ken Thornett NRL Players' Player Medal. At the Eels Lussick become an ambassador for Midas, The Kellyville Bushrangers and made an appearance on The Footy Show. 2013 saw Lussick win multiple players' players awards. At the end of the 2013 season Lussick had an over due groin operation which he played most of the season with. In Lussick's first year at the

he won the prestigious Ken Thornett NRL Players' Player Medal 2013. In March 2014, Lussick was suspended for 4 matches due to a tackle on a Sydney Roosters player,

Jared Waerea-Hargreaves Jared Waerea-Hargreaves (born 20 January 1989) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL) and New Zealand at international level. Waerea-Hargreaves started h ...

. At the end of his playing time with Parramatta, Lussick had played 53 games and had scored no tries. He was also a member of the Parramatta side which finished last in 2013.

Return to Manly-Warringah

On 18 August 2015, Lussick signed a three-year contract to return to the

starting in 2016. On 21 May 2017, Lussick was sin binned for an illegal shoulder charge on a North Sydney player when he was playing for

Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles The Blacktown Workers Rugby League Football Club, also known as Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles, are an Australian rugby league football club based in Blacktown, New South Wales formed in 1962. Since 2017 they have had a side in the NSW Cup, as th ...

against North Sydney at

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. On 16 July 2017, while Lussick was playing for the

against the

Wests Tigers The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional Rugby league, rugby league football team, based in the Inner West and South West Sydney. They have competed in the National Rugby League since being formed at the end of the 1999 NRL season as a j ...

, Lussick pulled Wests Tigers captain

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' hair. Lussick was charged with contrary conduct by the NRL, entered an early guilty plea, and was fined $1350. On 23 July 2017, Lussick was sin binned in Manly's 52–22 loss against the

St George Illawarra Dragons The St. George Illawarra Dragons is an Australian professional rugby league football club, representing both the Illawarra and St George regions of New South Wales. The club has competed in the National Rugby League since 1999 after a joint- ...

for punching St George player Jack De Belin.

Toronto Wolfpack

On 21 April 2018, Lussick left Manly to join The

. It was reported that Lussick departed the club due to coach Trent Barrett's refusal to pick him for the first grade side despite being fit and had overcome his injuries. It was also reported that Lussick and Barrett had a verbal altercation at training in the lead up to Lussick's departure. On 7 October, Lussick played in Toronto's 4–2 defeat against

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in the

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. In 2019, Lussick played in Toronto's

victory over

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to secure promotion to the

for the first time.

Salford Red Devils

On 1 January 2021, it was reported that Lussick had signed for

Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...

. In round 8 of the

2021 Super League season Super League XXVI, known as the Betfred Super League XXVI for sponsorship reasons, was the 26th season of the Super League and 127th season of rugby league in Great Britain. The 2021 season was originally scheduled to begin on 11 March 2021, ho ...

, he scored his first try for Salford but was later sent to the sin bin for a dangerous high tackle in the club's 62-18 loss.

Featherstone Rovers (loan)

On 7 June 2021, it was reported that he had signed for

in the

on loan.

Boxing career

On 7 December 2019, Lussick made his boxing debut against former

player

Justin Hodges Justin Hodges (born 25 May 1982) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative , Hodges started his career in the Natio ...

. Lussick won in his debut fight knocking out Hodges in the first 39 seconds of the bout. Lussick fought

Paul Gallen Paul Gallen (born 14 August 1981) is an Australian professional boxer and former professional rugby league footballer who played as a and forward and captained the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NRL to their maiden NRL Premiership in 2016. ...

in his second professional bout on December 22, 2021, putting up a brave effort but was outclassed and gassed in the first round, ultimately leading to a second round KO for Gallen

Personal life

Lussick was named as

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Ambassador, the Parramatta Eels new charity partner for 2014. Darcy is the older brother of Joey Lussick who plays with the

References

External links

Toronto Wolfpack profileManly Sea Eagles profileNRL profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lussick, Darcy 1989 births Living people Australian rugby league players Australian expatriate sportspeople in England Australian expatriate sportspeople in Canada Featherstone Rovers players Manly Warringah Sea Eagles players New South Wales City Origin rugby league team players Parramatta Eels players People educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill Rugby league props Rugby league locks Rugby league players from Sydney Salford Red Devils players Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles players Toronto Wolfpack players Australian expatriate rugby league players Expatriate rugby league players in England